What Does Hell Look Like?

The Bible really doesn’t describe Hell in much detail. However, the Italian poet Dante Alighieri created quite a sensation at the dawn of the Renaissance with his fanciful description. Here’s how the great master Gustave Dore illustrated Dante’s Inferno.

What is hell really like?

Oddly enough, the Bible really doesn’t describe Hell in great detail. In Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, the Apostle John describes a "lake of fire" ( Revelation 19:20). The souls of the evil departed are “cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." At the end of time, Revelation 20:10 tells how "the devil is cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet shall be tormented forever and ever."